Carolyn Swartz Bucksbaum '51: Leader in cultural and civic affairs; Trustee, Grinnell College; Vice President of the National Public Radio Foundation; Former Board Member, Des Moines Register; Former Chair of Trustees, Grinnell College

George McJimsey ’58: professor emeritus of history at Iowa State University, author of Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy and The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

David Mura ’74: writer, memoirist, poet, and performance artist; author of Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire

Patricia O’Conner ’71: former editor, The New York Times Book Review and author of Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English

Sam Tanenhaus ’77: editor, The New York Times Book Review; 1997 National Book Award finalist for the biography Whittaker Chambers; author, The Death of Conservatism

Michele Weiner-Davis ’73: psychotherapist and author of books on solution-based brief therapy, including Divorce Busting and Fire Your Shrink: Do-It-Yourself Strategies for Changing Your Life and Everyone in It